Cap-string fastener



UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MOLL, OF PATER SON, NEW JERSEY.

CAP-STRIN e FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,250, dated April 4,1899.

Application filed October 25, 1898. Serial No- 694,502. (No model.)

To (0M w/tom, it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MOLL, of the city of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cap-String Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my'invention is to provide a cap-string fastener which will from its simplicity of construction and ease of operation greatly facilitate the securing of strings to childrens caps or other head-coverings and the removal or detaching of the strings therefrom, thus obviating the necessity of sewing and ripping the strings to and from the cap for the purpose of washing or replacing the same. p

The invention consists of a thin plate of metallic or other suitable substance provided with perforations by means of which it may be secured or sewed to the side of a cap. At one end of the plate is secured, on the outer surface thereof, a shoulder or post having a screw-threaded opening adapted to receive a screw. Said post is pivotally secured to the plate and the screw-threaded opening passes horizontally through the head thereof. Another post is secured, but not to turn, on the other end of the plate and has a screwthreaded recess adapted to receive the end of a screw. A screw having a head of any desired size, shape, or'substance passes through the pivot-post, then between the hems or thicknesses of the cap-string, and is screwed into the fixed post. The fixed post has a head similar to the head of the screw, so that when the cap-string is fastened to the cap an observer could not te1l,-unless knowing it, which end in sight was the head of the screw. The head of the screw and of the fixed post may be ornamented or set with diamonds or other precious stones to suit the fancy, or the said heads may be so arranged as to be hidden altogether by the cap-strings. I

In the accompanying drawings, intended to illustrate my invention and which form a part of this specification, similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the diiferent figures.

Figure 1 represents a childs head with a cap on, and my device is shown securing the strings to the cap. The head of the screw is visible, also the head of the fixed post. The position of the plate secured to the cap is shown by the dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of my device closed. Fig. 3 is aside or edge view of the same closed; and Fig. 4 is a view of my device open, orthe pivot-post being turned to admit, of the screw being inserted in the cap-string before being screwed into the fixed post.

In the drawings, a is the cap; I), the capstring; 0, the plate; (1, the screw; e, the fixed post; f, the pivot-post, and g the head of the fixed post. The head 9 of the fixed post 6 is When the string becomes soiled, the screw is turned until it is removed from the fixed post e and the screw in the pivot-post is swung around, as shown in Fig. 4, and the string is then slipped ofi the screw.

With this description of my invention, what I claim is 1. In a cap-string fastener, the screw d in combination with the post f adapted to turn on a horizontal plane, andprovided with a through the head thereof, and the fixed post e having a screw-threaded recess to receive the end of the screw, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes specified.

2. The plate 0, the post f secured on one end thereof, so as to turn on a horizontal plane, and provided with a screw-threaded opening passing horizontally through the head thereof, and the fixed post 6 secured on the other end of said plate and having a screwthreaded recess to receive the end of a screw, in combination with a screw adapted to pass through the turning post f and into the recess in the head ofthe post e, constructed substantially as shown and described and for the purposes specified.

3. A cap-string fastener, consisting of a plate with perforations near the edge thereof to secure it to the cap by sewing, a post secured to one end of said plate to turn in a horizontal plane, a screw-threaded opening made to resemble the head of the screw (1. 1

screw-threaded opening passing horizontally.

passing horizontally through the head of said tion therewith, and through the thicknesses post, a fixed post on the other end of said of a cap-string and into the recess in the head plate, a screw-threaded recess in the head of of the fixed post, substantially as specified. 10

said last-mentioned post to receive the end JOIIN MOLL. of a screw, all in combination with a screw lVitnesses: adapted to pass through the turning post, JOHN F. KERR,

and to turn on a horizontal plane in conjunc- M. E. MOLL. 

